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Contemporary practices of sterilization in Australia

As a follow up to the post in the first link below, here is a list of further related links on those wanting to know more. Thanks to a helpful anonymous reader of the What Sorts blog who provided most of the links below but who doesn’t wish to be identified. Folks in Oz: let us know if you have more information, are undertaking action, whatever.

These are all relevant to the parliamentary inquiry mentioned in the first post. But there’s more that’s ongoing in Western Australia that concerns a draft bill on mental health, with cross-over to the issues above:

Moira Raynor and Judith Cockram, “The Response of the Law to Intellectual Disability in Western Australia 1829-1993″, in Cocks, Fox, Brogan, and Lee (eds), Under Blue Skies: The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability in Western Australia (Edith Cowan University Press, 1996). I haven’t been able to track an electronic copy of this yet that one can access without some kind of subscription / special status. If anyone has a link to it, please send it on.

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